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Comparing Founding Documents

Engage students in comparing and analyzing various founding documents such as English Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and more. Encourage critical thinking skills through text marking, collaboration, and drawing conclusions on historical significance. Explore the impact of these documents then and now.

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Comparing Founding Documents

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  1. Comparing Founding Documents Close read

  2. Bellwork Please leave everything in your bags and get ready for your new seats!

  3. Choose one document. • There are several copies in your folder. Each person at your table will be responsible for one of the documents. There are four choices in the folder. Make sure that each of the students at your tables has a different document.

  4. Step 1: Mark the Text • Number the paragraphs. • Circle key terms, names of people and places. • Highlight or box any unfamiliar words. • For each document, answer the following question: What does this document say? (Keep this brief) • At the end of your text, write your final impression on the impact of this historical text. Why does it matter?

  5. Step 2: Collaborate • Share your summaries with the rest of your table group. As each student shares, the other students should take brief notes in the correct section of their graphic organizer.

  6. Major Ideas of the Enlightenment • Ideas and the way people view the world and think are changing.

  7. English Bill of Rights • Rights are guaranteed to people. (England)

  8. A Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen • People have certain guaranteed rights that cannot be taken away. (France)

  9. The Declaration of Independence • Yo, England, we’re breaking up with you! (United States)

  10. Step 3: Drawing Conclusions • What do all of the documents have in common? • How did these ideas spread 200-300 years ago compared to the spread of ideas today? • Write your response at the bottom of your graphic organizer.

  11. BELLWORK • In your groups, revisit the questions you answered yesterday: • How do documents like the Magna Carta and Bill of Rights effect you, a teenager living in the United States? • How are these two documents important on a global/world scale?

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